Mapping and Research for Henry County, Indiana
Henry County was named for Patrick Henry who was a Patriot hero prior to
the Revolutionary War for saying, "......give me liberty or give me death."
Organized June 1, 1822, the first men to arrive in the County were
Daniel and Asa Heaton in 1819.
New Castle is the County Seat and was settled by Charles Jamison. By
1849 it contained a County Seminary, a Court House and other public
offices, 100 houses and population of 500.
New Castle is the location of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame and
the courthouse inspired Ross Lockridge's great American novel, Raintree
County.
At Millville, is the home of Wilbur Wright, who with his brother,
Orville, invented and flew the first successful heavier-than-air craft
at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
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